Welcome to the DUALISTIC PHILOSOPHY of

TRUTHFUL ILLUSIONS &

ILLUSORY TRUTHS

by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

 

 

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This collection of what I like to paradoxically think of as ‘essayistic aphorisms’ (or aphorisms with side titles rather than side numbers) is taken from two texts, namely Between Truth and Illusion and The Illusory Truth, both of which date from 1977, and is therefore indicative of a very early phase in my philosophical development.  The subject-matter ranges over quite a wide field, but is mostly restricted to a dualistic analysis of the world, which tends to take the interdependence of opposites, or polarities, for granted.  Such dualism, while no longer representative of my philosophical bias, was as good a starting-point as any, and I am still able to detect, here and there, intimations of intellectual futurity in various of these paradoxical writings, which prove that no matter how far one may develop, there is always some kind of link with the past and inescapable bedrock to oneself both as a writer and a person that time is unable to erase. – John O’Loughlin.

 

 

CONTENTS

THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF OPPOSITES

THE CONFLICT OF OPPOSITES

THE NECESSARY ILLUSION

THE LEGITIMACY OF STUPIDITY

MORE POSITIVE THAN NEGATIVE

BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE

NEITHER ANGEL NOR DEMON

NO GOOD WITHOUT EVIL

ONLY PART WISE

PERFECT OR IMPERFECT

PERFECT AND IMPERFECT

A NECESSARY DOUBT

NO SHAM WISDOM

ONLY ABSURD SOMETIMES

NOT ENTIRELY SANE

NOT ENTIRELY INSANE

NO HAPPINESS WITHOUT SADNESS

NOTHING SUPERFLUOUS

BETWEEN DAY AND NIGHT

A MISTAKE IN PLUTARCH

WISDOM AND FOLLY

TRUTH AND ILLUSION

GOOD AND EVIL

HAPPINESS AND SADNESS

PROFUNDITY AND SUPERFICIALITY

CERTAINTY AND DOUBT

REASONABLENESS AND UNREASONABLENESS

CLEVERNESS AND STUPIDITY

SUCCESS AND FAILURE

PLEASURE AND PAIN

LOVE AND HATE

VIRTUE AND VICE

STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS

INTEREST AND DISINTEREST

THE PHILOSOPHER AS MAN

TWO TYPES OF THINKER

THINKING SHOULD BE DIFFICULT

A JUSTIFICATION OF BOREDOM

ULTIMATE JUSTICE

NO ESCAPING EVIL

THE WAY IT HAS TO BE

NO HOPE WITHOUT FEAR

TWENTY MISTAKEN IDEAS

SLIGHTLY EXISTENTIAL

WORDS AS OUR REALITY

PARTLY OUR CREATION

TRUTHS BUT NO TRUTH

REALITY AND REALITIES

HUMAN DIVERSITY

NO TWO ALIKE

TIME BELONGS TO MAN

INEVITABLY UNREASONABLE

PUPPETS OF LIFE

THE NEGATIVE ROOT

THE STRUGGLE FOR HAPPINESS

WORK AND PLAY

NO FREEDOM WITHOUT BINDING

FROM WINTER TO AUTUMN

NO 'MOTHER NATURE'

MALE AND FEMALE PRIDE

AGAINST FOLLY

SUSPENDED JUDGEMENT

AGAINST REINCARNATION

SUPERSTITION UNIVERSAL

THE END OF THE WORLD

ART AS IDEALITY

GREAT ART

NO HEALTH WITHOUT DISEASE

ILLNESS NO OBJECTION

THE 'PLIMSOLL LINE' OF SLEEP

A WIDER VIEW OF VICE

MISUSED CONCEPTS

AGAINST RACIAL INEQUALITY

THE TRANSIENCE OF DEATH

PHILOSOPHY VERSES INSULAR INTOLERANCE

INDIVIDUAL WISDOM

THE MEANING AND PURPOSE OF LIFE

THE INFERIOR NEGATIVE

FOUR CATEGORIES

NEGATIVES SERVE

SUCCESSFUL FAILURES

POSITIVELY SELFISH

A POSTHUMOUS B.C.

SCHISMATIC CHRISTIANITY

LIVE SYMBOLS

INTERPLANETARY EQUILIBRIUM

MAGNETIC RECIPROCITIES

UNIVERSE OR UNIVERSES

BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL

 

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IN THE SHADOW OF SPENGLER

DAWN OF THE LIFE

 

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

John James O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic of Ireland, of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split due to ethnic and other incompatibilities (they called her 'Mary Aldershot'), he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with intent to stay following the death of her British-based husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in Aldershot, Oakham, and, following the death and repatriation of his grandmother, Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, where, despite an enforced change of denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into care by his mother, he attended a state school. Graduating in 1970 with an assortment of CSE’s (Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCE’s (General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved the comparatively short distance up to London and went on, via two short-lived jobs, to work at the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford Square, where he eventually became responsible for booking examination venues. After a brief flirtation with Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End but retired from the ABRSM in 1976 due to a combination of factors, including ill-health, and proceeded to dedicate himself to a literary vocation which, despite a brief spell as a computer tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and early '90s, he has effectively continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), Cross-Purposes (1979), Thwarted Ambitions (1980), Sublimated Relations (1981), and Deceptive Motives (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin exclusively dedicated himself to philosophy, his true literary vocation, and has penned more than sixty titles of a philosophical nature, including Devil and God – The Omega Book (1985-6), Towards the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988-9), Philosophical Truth (1991-2), and, more recently, The Centre of Truth (2009). John O’Loughlin is a bachelor who lives alone in Hornsey, north London.

 

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